Workshop: Environmental EducationRenewable Energies for children and youth

The importance of renewable energy sources is ever growing on an international scale. Yet asustainable energy policy can only be successfully implemented with the positive attention ofchildren and young grown ups. Still, renewable energies and environmental education face aserious lack of attention - be it in schools, at home or in the media. In order to enhanceattention and to provide a platform for international cooperation, the German Federal Ministryfor the Environment invited European stakeholders in environmental education ranging fromNGOs to school boards and individual teachers to an international workshop in Berlin.The workshop presented innovative European concepts for environmental education. Berlinschool projects, the Polish Energy Bus and participants from all over Europe have presentedthemselves to demonstrate how environmental education for renewable energies can beimproved in practice...